"I frequently enjoy working in the brackish waters between ethnography and art, as well as within the authority and authenticity of the museum. I am drawn to sociological and visual curiosities, artifact, artificiality, and document, and the role we place nature in our lives and environments. With beauty and surprise, I try making the familiar strange and the strange comprehensible."— Erik Boker

Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures is a celebratory view of the great musician, filled with testimonials, poems and memories from Huddie Ledbetter's family, friends and admirers, such as Tom Waits, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and many others who saw the greatness of Lead Belly's music. The uniqueness of this handsome book is its photographs, which speak to Lead Belly's power and persona. At first glance, this is a scrapbook of images and documents uncovered in a box, presumably the collection of Huddie's wife, Martha. There are personal handwritten letters to her, as well as many of the more horrific documents that shaped Lead Belly's life...

Todd Hido: House Hunting (1st Edition) In Todd Hido's photographs suburbia is lonely and perplexing, yet utterly familiar. Interiors and exteriors are photographed while light spills in from the windows or bathes the aluminum siding in an otherworldly glow. "In Hido's photographs, the rest of the world remains present, but unseen—its demands to be expressed or signified are held in abeyance, stirring the viewer's own memories."—Artweek.

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"Farewell Books is proud to announce the publication of a new book, Naini and the Sea of Wolves by Trinidad Carillo. With Carrillo's daughter Naini as the story's main character, the book describes a world of poetic reality, where dream and memory are intertwined."?the publisher READ MORE

Marcelo Gomes: Love and Before, Green and After
"Love and Before, Green and After by Marcelo Gomes is the artists first book. Gomes' photographs are poetic, dream-like images of our most beautiful experiences."— the publisher READ MORE

Albert Fuchs: MK 95
"The centerpiece of this impressive collection of Albrecht Fuchs photographs is Fuchs' photos of the controversial conceptual artist Martin Kippenberger, whose untimely death in 1997 cemented his reputation as the enfant terrible of contemporary German art."—the publisher READ MORE

Anders Petersen: Frenchkiss
"Anders Petersen is a world-renowned photographer, noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. Petersen explores the fringes of society, and his images depict a raw, and sometimes disturbingly brutal, social portrait"—the publisher READ MORE

Susan S. Bank: Cuba: Campo Adentro—Signed
"Accidentally stumbling upon a forgotten out of the way community of tobacco farmers in Pinar del Río Province, Bank lived and worked over a six-year period with ten families who had no modern conveniences. Working against obstacles from Cuba and the US, with her Leica camera, she has achieved what no outsider or Cuban photographer has been able to do."—the publisher READ MORE

Peter Granser: Signs
"Signs, draws a telling picture of life today in
America. For it, Granser traveled 12,000 miles
through the "republic" of Texas. With keen and
objective precision, he focuses in his color photographs
on the plethora of relics and signs that
proliferate across the landscape and provide us
with insights into the strange and contradictory
state of contemporary American identity."—the publisher READ MORE

Adam Jeppesen: Wake
"Danish documentary filmmaker and
photographer Adam Jeppesen's
Wake was assembled over a period
of several months in the backwoods
of Finland. Rather than fall prey to
Nordic melancholy while in seclusion,
Jeppesen constructed a poetic,
dreamlike sequence from his archive
of past images..."—the publisher READ MORE

Josef Breitenbach: Manifesto
"Born in Munich in 1896, Josef Breitenbach's early work remained unseen until its surprise discovery, after his death, in 1984. Published in association with The Josef Breitenbach Trust, Manifesto is an important addition to the literature available on this extraordinary artist."—the publisher READ MORE

Leigh Ledare: Pretend You're Actually Alive
"Composed in its entirety of photographs, written anecdotes and ephemera, Leigh Ledare's first book, Pretend You're Actually Alive, is a searingly intimate investigation of the artist's relationship with his mother, a once-promising prodigy ballerina."—the publisher READ MORE